Example sentences for: illegitimacy

How can you use “illegitimacy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To be sure, illegitimacy is not a perfect proxy for indiscriminate promiscuity--although other indicators (venereal-disease incidence, divorce rates, etc.) track well with it.

  • The metaphor undermines the Losing Ground Murray, the guy who writes that "[u]ntil the government began masking the social costs created by large numbers of fatherless children, civilized communities everywhere stigmatized illegitimacy."

  • Dimly aware of this problem, Murray brings in a more sweeping illegitimacy thesis--government is unjustified--to trump all the others.

  • Instead, he pledges "to usher in the responsibility era," in which we will "confront illegitimacy," instill "discipline and love" in juvenile justice, and accept that "we're responsible for our neighbors and helping in our communities."

  • But his relajando behavior, the social situations and entanglements he got into, were also subversively configured to emphasize the extreme illegitimacy of the social structure.


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